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Nah, I don't think so. :D

That's a great job!
It's really tough to mask an area like you did, and work around it - sanding and all - without scratching something outside your work area, or...

Tang Band also makes some 6.5" subwoofers that have really good specs to them, that are sold for around $30 each. High excursion for little 6.5's for sure... and they've got 6x9 subs that are...

If you put the tweeters in the vents, you have three issues:

1) how to physically mount the tweeters inside the air vent - those are open tubes behind the vents.

2) how to contend with issues...

The good news is, with that higher tweeter location, chances are your soundstage will at least have a decent height - and height is reportedly the most important factor to most audiophiles - new and...

It's entirely dependent on your enclosure.

Bear two things in mind:
A) Hoffman's Iron Law:
It states the following three items are mutually exclusive, in any subwoofer/enclosure alignment:
1)...

I know the owner of Sound Foundations personally myself.
I talk with him on the phone all the time.
He's a great guy, an enthusiast first and foremost - he's on our side, so his support is great,...

A ring magnet just is a round neodymium magnet with a hole in the center... a ring shape.

The Parthenon was so named because of it's unique pillared construction, with a neodymium ring magnet at...

Hey now...
I'm a reject from CAF. :p

I believe the Parthenon starts around $4,000, less if you have an Adire connection.. but still very pricey. ;)

Well, the W7 is a fantastic design.
It's got a bottomless suspension.
It's just that it's linear excursion is a mere 1mm more than the Brahma. ;)

And if that mm is important to you, you could...

In over 15 years, I've still never had to drill a hole through a firewall... running 1/0 gauge or whatever.

I honestly fear drilling through metal on a car, particularly when you are talking about...

It's a matter of proper selection of parts.
In the case of the Brahma, these parts were chosen, because in combination, they allowed the designers to reach their design goals.

The cone/former had...

Well, by off the shelf parts, I mean standard, mass produced parts.
They don't have a performance disadvantage, they are just mass produced, giving them a per-unit-cost advantage.

Take the...

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Perhaps more important, would be considering that the distortion on a Brahma is ludicrously low, compared to virtually all other subs out there.
In fact, the Brahma's distortion is so low...

[/b]It's essentially flat... the small deviations are simply due to the balancing act itself, of what an appropriate coil length is, given the asymmetrical gap-space-gap of XBL^2...
The shorter you...

Read up on XBL^2 technology, there's a whitepaper on it on Adire's website.

By virtue of XBL^2, the BL (motor strength) is absolutely flat (constant) across a huge excursion range... 27.5mm in the...

Well, I'm an "infrequent regular", but I have some pics online.

This one isn't particularly flattering, since I'm standing next to Adire Audio's Dan Wiggins, who is about 6'4": :D ...

These things are purpose built SPL subs.

What that means is this:
Extra high motor strength.
Relatively high Fs.

These two items alone will relegate these subs to ported-enclosure-only...

[/b]The challenge with running a dipole tweeter in a car, is how to mount it.
In a home, it mounts on a small baffle (if it's tweeter-only, a very small baffle ;))... both the front and rear of the...

Home audio is a whole different world.. but most of the same acoustical rules apply.

Bear in mind, when you are talking about home audio, you are talking about two completely distinct groups of...

Batteries, capacitors, alternators:
http://www.betteraudio.com/geolemon/newmain/battcapalt/

Absolute phasing, pathlength and arrival time differences and their effects:...

Nah, I beat them all up. :D

J/K... seriously though, there are good people over there!
The mean ones get abused by the rest, and generally simply make fools of themselves, honestly. ;)

Plus -...

To back up your point, it's not really about this.

It's really more about this:
No one owns a car, so they can drive it from their garage, out... and back into their garage.

It's not for...

I addressed this in that article I posted earlier, in the "frequently asked questions" section. ;)

To rehash:

How often do you have rear seat passengers?

Would you compromise your front-seat...

Effective...
At what? ;)

I'd completely abandon that location, short of entertaining it as another potential option for a tweeter location... which probably even still isn't a good one.
It's...